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Critics! Those cut-throat bandits in the paths of fame.

~Robert Burns

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O thou great, unknown Power! Thou Almighty God, who hast lighted up reason in my breast and blessed me with immortality! I have frequently wandered from that order and regularity necessary for the perfection of thy works, yet thou hast never left me nor forsaken me.

~Robert Burns

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The snowdrop and primrose our woodlands adorn, and violets bathe in the wet o' the morn.

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There is nothing in the whole frame of man which seems to me so unaccountable as that thing called conscience.

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His locked, lettered, braw brass collar, Shewed him the gentleman and scholar.

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The wide world is all before us - but a world without a friend.

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And there begins a lang digression about the lords o' the creation.

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I foresee that poverty and obscurity probably await me, and I am in some measure prepared and daily preparing to meet them.

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I am very willing to admit that I have some poetical abilities, and as few - if any - writers, either moral or political, are intimately acquainted with the classes of mankind among whom I have chiefly mingled, I may have seen men and manners in a different phasis from what is common, which may assist originality of thought.

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In my conscience, I believe that my heart has been so oft on fire that it is absolutely vitrified.

~Robert Burns

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Biography

Nationality: Scottish

Type: Poet

Born: January 25th, 1759

Died: July 21st, 1796

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